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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]volunteer in school and join the PTA.

When we  moved here, I was wfh, and so the only people I met were through my kids' school.[/quote]

- a man at the PTA meeting?!  That will go over well.   :roll: [/quote]

OP here. Would it be odd? I feel as if other moms might think I have nefarious reasons for joining. I can't imagine a lot of other moms would like a 20-30 year old male joining the PTA....[/quote]

I'm a current female PTA board member (non-DMV).  There have been some active male PTA participants at every schooling level in my district.  We have 6 elementaries, 1 middle, and 1 high school. Male participants are welcome and can be quite helpful.  I have seen one male PTA elementary president,  a male high school PTA president, and various VP roles so far in our district.

Feel free to attend PTA.  If it's not the sort with a mean girls clique, it will be like any other modestly effortful volunteering opportunity.  Modest effort with some modest community building and good feeling in return.

I believe the reason men do not come is because PTA is typically an economically inefficient use of time and it's emotional labor and social event organizing heavy.  Also I feel that men tend to concern themselves less with interacting directly with their kids' teachers (who are mainly women until high school).  It is definitely a female coded pastime.  But there's no reason to perpetuate gender stereotypes.  [/quote]

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